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Charles "Bernie" Buttrey

  • Class
    1976
  • Induction
    2014
  • Sport(s)
    Football
Name: Charles "Bernie" Buttrey, Athlete
Class of: 1976
Bernie Buttrey, a native of St. Marys, WV, graduated from St. Marys High School where he lettered in football, basketball, and track. He came to GSC after two years of playing football as a defensive end at Marshall University and was Most Valuable Lineman at the 1973 NAIA National Runner-up football team's semi-final game. Bernie will forever be touched by the 1970 Marshall plane crash that all but obliterated the Marshall University football team and coaching staff. He was a freshman that year and as such didn't make the trip. As fate would have it, he was one of the fortunate ones. Buttrey was head coach at West Preston High School (1976-1983), assistant coach at Williamstown High School (1983-1994), assistant coach, defensive lineman strength coach, and freshman head coach at Marietta College (1994-1998), head coach at Williamstown High School (1999-2001), and Parkersburg High School head coach (2002-2009) where he had 66 wins and two State Championships. Buttrey is the only coach in the more than a 100-year history of Parkersburg High Football to lead the Big Reds to back-to-back state titles. He was named West Virginia High School Coach of the Year by the West Virginia Sports Writers Association following the Big Reds' 14-0 season in 2006, when Parkersburg won the first of two state championships under his guidance. PHS repeated as state champions in 2007, posting a 13-1 mark in winning the 11th state football title in school history. Buttrey's Big Red teams qualified for the state playoffs in six of his eight seasons, failing to accomplish that feat only in his initial season of 2002 and again in 2008. His coach's play-off record was 12-5. Bernie left PHS in December 2009 as the fifth winningest coach in the school's history. He will be inducted into the Mid-Ohio Valley Sports Hall of Fame in June 2014. Bernie and his wife Robin reside in Williamstown. He has one daughter, Kayla (Buttrey) Nelson and two sons: Jason, who played for him at Williamstown High School and Travis, who elected to stay at Williamstown when his dad took the AAA coaching position at PHS in 2002. Other family members include his son-in-law Matt Nelson, his daughter-in-law Karla Buttrey (Jason's wife), Jason and Karla's two children, Madilyn and Olivia; Travis' son, Jackson, Travis' fiancee, Crystal Webb and her son, Grant. His hobbies are riding his motorcycle and playing golf.
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